Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle

by Henry Noel Brailsford

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GENERAL

Lecky. History of England in the 18th Century.

Leslie Stephen.—History of English Thought in the 18th Century.

Oliver Elton..—A Survey of English Literature.

Edward Dowden—The French Revolution and English Literature.

The most vivid impression of the period from the standpoint of Godwin's Circle is conveyed in the Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft edited by Hazlitt, and in Hazlitt's portraits of Godwin, Malthus and Mackintosh in The Spirit of the Age (Everyman's Library).

Of the opposite way of thinking the one immortal record is Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution. Lord Morley's Burke (English Men of Letters) should be read, and the eloquent exposition by Lord Hugh Cecil (Conservatism) in this (H.U.L.) series.

The main works of the French revolutionary thinkers have been issued in Dent's series of French classics. For study and pleasure consult Lord Morley's books on Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot.

The details given in the first chapter concerning the London Corresponding Society are based on its pamphlets in the British Museum.